venturebeat.com Archives - 11 March 2013, Monday

Virtual currency Bitcoin has hit new highs in value after Mt. Gox , the largest Bitcoin exchange, struck a deal to let startup CoinLab handle its U.S. operations. Japan’s Mt. Gox is the largest exchange in the world for Bitcoin, but it had been having trouble making headway in the Uni...

Just a week after Reddit started letting its users pay via Bitcoin , another staple of the internet has started accepting the digital currency. Yesterday, non-profit organization The Internet Archive — a site that backs up old webpages, videos, and other forgotten digital media of the...

Community news-sharing site Reddit is the latest in a small (but growing) list of online services that are now accepting Bitcoin as a form of payment. Bitcoin is a form of digital currency that uses decentralized (peer-to-peer) technology to manage transactions and validate payments i...

Community news-sharing site Reddit is the latest in a small (but growing) list of online services that are now accepting Bitcoin as a form of payment. Bitcoin is a form of digital currency that uses decentralized (peer-to-peer) technology to manage transactions and validate payments i...

Customers of Coinbase , a platform for buying and selling digital currency Bitcoin, have bought or sold more than $1 million worth of Bitcoin in the past 30 days , a sign Bitcoin is beginning to boom again. Coinbase launched last year and aims to be “the PayPal of Internet-only curren...

Ruby package distributor RubyGems.org was hacked today, disrupting web developers globally and causing service shutdowns at popular hosting service Heroku. “There was a vulnerability with RubyGems.org, which allowed someone to execute code on the server,” a Ruby programmer I talked to...

Ruby package distributor RubyGems.org was hacked today, disrupting web developers globally and causing service shutdowns at popular hosting service Heroku. “There was a vulnerability with RubyGems.org which allowed someone to execute code on the server,” a Ruby programmer I talked to ...

Asia dominated the world stage of tech funding news today. A Singapore-based firm that focuses its investments on Southeast Asian companies revealed the first three members of its portfolio, a health and wellness startup raised money to enter the Korean market, and a Hong-Kong company...

The mobile payments market may be set to pull in $171 billion this year , but for VeriFone, it’s been a big waste of money. VeriFone launched Sail , its Square -wannabe mobile payment system in May. And while the venture had the name power of VeriFone behind it, name power was apparen...

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Blogging platform WordPress will now accept Bitcoin as a form of payment, the site announced yesterday. Bitcoin is a form of digital currency that uses decentralized (peer-to-peer) technology to manage transactions and validate payments instead of a government-regulated banking system...

Codecademy , Startuplandia’s favorite online coding teacher, has just added Ruby on Rails to its library of courses. Ruby has long been one of the site’s most requested languages, largely due to its popularity within the network of web-based startups that make up our ecosystem. With t...

Sometimes a hack has unexpected outcomes. Today, a hacker who claims to have obtained Mitt Romney’s tax returns is demanding a ransom of $1 million in Bitcoins. The hacker probably didn’t expect to improve the market for Bitcoins overall, but that’s exactly what happened, as the value...

The future of the top U.S. Bitcoin echange is in doubt after $250,000 in virtual currency was stolen last night. As CNet reports , an unidentified hacker found and absconded with an unencrypted backup of virtual wallet keys, taking 24,000 bitcoins, each worth just over ten U.S. dollar...

This morning, LinkedIn launched its gorgeously overhauled mobile app . We’ve already told you all about the new features, but for developers, the most exciting part is what’s going on under the hood. The app is two to 10 times faster on the client side than its predecessor, and on the...